DailyCues.com makes use of an adaptive notation system so that pronunciation examples appear according to preferences set by the user. By using simple code in the article a word and its pronunciation can be shown (e.g., pat /pppppppppæăaæăaæăattttttttt/). The slashes around the pronunciation indicate a fairly broad transcription is used. In other words, just the building blocks are shown.
Sometimes it is necessary to add more detail by provideing a more narrow transcritption that may have information about how a word is produced in speech [pʰXXXXpʰXXXXpʰXXXXæăaæăaæăattttttttt] (e.g., /p/ may be accompanied by a puff of air at the beginning of a word). In this case, it is customary to use brackets around the pronunciation to indicate that a phonetic transcription is provided.
Below is the code to include adaptive transcritption in articles:
| Code | Description | How It Appears |
| //p// | Double slashes around IPA | /ppppppppp/ |
| //pæt// | Double slashes around IPA | /pppppppppæăaæăaæăattttttttt/ |
| //pʰ// | Double slashes around IPA with an asterisk inside right slashes | [pʰXXXXpʰXXXXpʰXXXX] |
| //pʰæt// | Double slashes around IPA with an asterisk inside right slashes | [pʰXXXXpʰXXXXpʰXXXXæăaæăaæăattttttttt] |